The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-04-28

present of $4,000 ten years hence. Oh,
remember the apprehension and tremor of en-
tering a profession. l remember very well
the man who greeted me in the ecclesiastical
court with the tip ends of the long fingers of
the left hand; and I remember the other man
who took my hand in both of his and said:
''God bless you, my brother; you have en-
tered a glorious profession; be faithful to
God and lie will see you through" Why, I
feel this minute the thrill of that hand
shaking, though the man who gave me the
Christian grip has been in heaven twenty-five
years. There are old men to-day who can look
back to forty years ago, when some one said
a kind word to them. Now, old men, pay back
what you got then. 1t is great art for old
men to be able to encourage the young. There
are many young people in our cities who have
come from inland counties of cur own state
from the granite hills of the north, from the
savannas of the south, from the prairies of
the west. They are here to get their fortune.
They are in boarding houses, where everybody
seems to be thinking of himself They want
companionship and they want Christian en-
couragement. Give it to them. My word is
to all clerks in this house: Be mightier than
your temptations. A Sandwich Islander used
to think when he slew an enemy all the
strength of that enemy came into his own
right arm. And 1 have to tell you that every
misfortune you conquer is so much added to
your moral power. With omnipotence for a
lever, and the throne of God for a fulcrum,
you can move earth and heaven While there
are other young nlen putting the cup of sin to
their lips, stoop down and drink out of the
fountains of God, and you will rise up strong
to thresh the mountains The ancients used
to think that pearls were fallen raindrops,
which, touching the surface Of the sea, hard
ened into gems, then dropped to the bottom.
have to tell you to-day that storms Of tria
have showered imperishable pearl into many
young mans lap. Oh, young man! while
you have goods TO sell remember you have
soul to save. In a hospital Christian cap
tain, wounded few days before, got delirious,
and in the midnight hour he sprang out on
the floor of the hospital, thinking he was in
the battle, crying: 'COme on, boys! For
ward! Charged" All, he was only battling
the specters of his own brain. But it is no
imaginary conflict into which l call you,
young man, to-day. There are 10000 spirit
ual foes that would capture you. In
the name of God, up and at them.
After the last store has been closed,
after the last bank has gone down, after the
shuttle of the quick feet on the custom house
steps has stopped, after the long line OF mer-
chantmen on the sea have taken sail of e, me,
after Brooklyn and New York and Lon on
and Vienna have gone down into the gra e
where Thebes and Babylon and Tyre lay
buried, after the great fire bells of the Judg-
ment day have tolled at the burning Of
world-on that day all the affairs of banking
houses and stores will come up for inspecticl.
Oh, what an opening of account books! Side
by side, the clerks and the men who employed
them-the people who owned thread and
needle stores on the same footing with the
Stewarts and the Deanos and the Abbotts
and the Barings Every invoice made out
all the labels of goods, all certificates of
stock, all lists of prices, all private marks of
the 1rm now explained so everybody can u1-
delstand them. All the maps of cities that
were never built, but in which lots were sold
All bargains. All gougings. All snap judg-
ments. al false entries. All adulteration
of liquors with copperas and strych-
nine. All mixing of teas and sugars
and coffees and syrups with cheaper
material. All embezzlement of trust
funds. All swindles in coal and iron and
oil and silver and stocks All Swartouts
and Huntingtons and Ketchums On that
day, when the cities of this world are smoking
In the last coniagration, the trial will go on,
and down in an avalanche of destruction will
go those who wronged man or woman, in
suited God and defed the judgment. Oh,
that will be a great day for yon, honest
Christian clerk! No getting up early; no re-
String late; no walking around with weary
limbs; but mansion in which to live, and a
realm of love and light and joy over which
to hold everlasting dominion. Hoist him up
from glory to glory, and from song to song,
and from throne to throne; for while others
go down into the sea, with their gold like q
mill stone hanging to their necks, this one
shall come up the heights of amethyst and
alabaster, holding in his right hand the pearl
of great price in a sparkling, giittering,
flaming casl1et